r~ed on the plains of South Dakota~ But, whereas I

headed a little way east, he headed a long way west_

L Both of us entered the Senate in the class of

1948. But he was no green young freshman like me. >l'

He had already been, by then, five years a Congressman -So I had a lot to learn and I did - and I hope I ._...-- .. A earned a passing grade.

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in public life, Clinton Anderson has more energy, more

enthusiasm, more dedication to the service of his fellow­A

men than almost anyone in Washin ton - and, I might

add, more seniority In the Senate, too ~ l.AJ'-' ) Clinton Anderson always says he came here because ::? "' A

of your climate - but I have always suspected he had your

olitlcal climate in ~s well. . (

~ ~ /:t-~w Mexico has gotten a good return on its

with the high traditions of

loved friend, Senator Dennis Chavez. £

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~ou have also two hard-working and ~tive young Congressmen in Thomas Morris and Johnny

Walker. Like me, Johnny Walker has an interest in a

drug store6 And, like me, he has the utmost confidence ¥ in the people who are minding the~ so that both

undivided attention to our work in

Your Senators and your Congressmen have always ...------taken a keen and understanding interest in the welfare of

1-!_ust two 'days from no - this Sunday, in fact, an

important step in nation-building will be taken in a count

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the young Americans risking and giving their lives there. • -

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/ The people of South Vietnam will go to th~ polls to elect

a ~onstltuent assem~y,. ~ ~ ~In many ways, that election will be as important

to us as our own election two months from now.

L1 have detected a certain cynicism in the outlook

of some Americans concerning this election.

· L They do not seem to believe that an election can

be held In the midst of war.

L., Others say that the people of South Vietnam don't

know what elections mean, that they have had no experience

of democracy and no concept of it.

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I.. I think the best answer to these skeptics is the

fact - too often ignored - that Vietnam did have a free and

vigorously contested election, with a secret ballot and an

honest count of the vote, as recently as last year. - ----·· -· --

1., On May 3oth of last year millions of South Viet­

nemese citizens in 44 provinces and five cities went to the

polls to elect 471 provincial and city councillors. The

Communists missed the bus in last year•s elections. -They didn•t take them seriously, didn•t make a determined

effort to disrupt them. But they aren•t about to make that

mistake again.

They are determined to "smash'' and "crush11 this

coming 'election - I quote these words from their own

instructions to their followers.

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First, they warned all candidates to withdraw. They

warned all officials concerned with the preparations for the

elections to cease their activities orthwith. O~het•wise, ti-le -~ ..f.ta~ it'l: IICII, Jit1f!Y would be acting "at the risk of their

lives" and would be "punished without mercy." < Also, they warned government officials "not to

coerce the masses to vote. ••

polls - and no one wi II coerc them to.

is purported warning to election officials is actually

an implied warning to the people themselves not to go to the polls.

In case anyone might miss the point, the Viet Cong1 ·

have been busy all over the country spelling it out.

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First, they held what you might call seminars for

campaign workers o ~~

kiAR tliat political poi lies usualls hal~ )nstead of discussing

techniques for getting the voters to the polls on election day1

they outlined w~ and means of keeping them away .•

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0. n many parts of the country, they have been

carrying out forcible collections of identity cards and voting cards,

in an effort to prevent the people from casting their ballots.

~In other place] they have made preparations to

block roads and disrupt traffic, so that the people can•t travel

to the polling places.

~...._.~warned the '!!_llage£1 that

it will be highly dan erous to go anywhere near the polls on

e!;~n d~~ have threatened to mine them, t!}ob hand.

grenades at them, or to pour rifle fire into them. iP .

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~ I n sti II other cases, they have b I u ntly threatened

the villagers with instant death if they dare to vote.

L. WIIUIIIYI II :e \'lei 8o::g 11 ill La •hill ib • 1 ,,. 1 wt

_aU Umw 'li:mls lOIIJEb h iii •n~./.. But}hey have already

done their best to show that they mean business. --. L They began by setting off an explosion at a

pre-election fair in the northern city of Hue, with a heavy - - - -loss of llfe.J!:ey have continued with mounting violence,

including the assassination of several dozen village leaders

and political activists. And only this week they blew up an

election information center in the capital city of Saigon• .,;, . A century ago Abraham Lincoln said: 11The ballot

is stronger than the bullet. 11

The Viet Cong must fear that he was right, or they -would not have gone to such lengths to prevent the people

of Vietnam from casting their ballots Sunday. - ·-- J

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) I am not going to make any forecast about voter

turnout. We know from our own experience that the

turnout is not high in any election short of a Presidential

one. Moreover, there is terrorism, and there is a war

- -going on.

L But I do predict that mi I lions of Vietnamese citizens

~ vote,(And ~ the ballots they cast In the quiet

of the polling booths will speak louder and clearer than all

the bombs and guns of the Viet Cong terrorists.

L lncidentall~ this election will not be the kind of

make-believe, 99 and 44/IOOths per cent unanimous election

we have seen in Communist countries As of today, there

are some 540 candidates for the 108 elective seats. There

will not be a single uncontested seat anywhere in the country.

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~ Meticulous provisions have been made for assuring

the secrecy of the ballots and the honesty of the count•

L Almost 400 American and foreign correspondents will

observe and report all that happens on election day.

LAs for ourselves, we welcome this election. We

shall be delighted to work with any Vietnamese government

will give up if the election doesn't go the way they want. If

theytd ever let election losses discourage them, they would a

have gone out of business long ago- for they have yet to

win a free national election an here in the world.

L But this ~;ctlon -will be an important step in the

process of nation-building in South Vietnam - and therefore

a setback to the Communists.

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l., Wherever the prospects for free Institutions grow stronge~ totalitarians grow weaker •

~ ( We will continue to wage the struggle in Vietnam

on the diplomatic, political, economic and military fronts -

with vigor, determination, and above all patience. And we

must always remember that, in this new kind of war, the

building of schools, the establishment of hospitals, the im-

provement of a riculture, the restraint of inflation, the

holding of elections - all the things that build the framework

of a nation - can be as Important as what happens on the

battlefl e I d.

• Z'"vl;t~am is, of course, only one of many new nations

that are struggling to find their feet in todais world. And

it is not the only nation where the Communists have sought

to take power by subversion or outright aggression. _____ ,. - -

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In Asia alone, Malaya, the Phillippine Republic, Burma, ------- ~ c

Indonesia, and Thailand have suffered or are suffering - . :.-

from Communist insurrections - and South Korea and

India have been the victims of large-scale attacks by

Communist neighbors.

L Yet in the en~ I am confiden} the Communists

will find their aggression can gain them little -- so long

as it is resisted.L.:or they are bucking the strongest tides

running in the world today -- the tides of national independence

and self-determination. @ ~ .... ~1

L -~ As the ~ts of a tree seek out wate~ so peoples

seek their own national identities.

L It is not the stale dogmas of Karl Marx that are

shaping the world of today and tomorrow, but the ever-fresh

principles of our own Declaration of Independence,.

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In the words of Thomas Jefferson:

uAII eyes are opened, or are opening,

ri hts of man ••• the palpable t

orn with saddles on their backs,

ed few, booted and spurred, ready to ride them. •• •

What we have been and are doing here at home is - . no more and no less than what we are seeking abroad - for • at na - rv•

our foreign policy is essentially a projection of what we seek - .. and do at home ..

-z-;; at home we are .. b_ui_ld_i ~--..-.­opportunity - a society in which every man and woman is free wz -

to expres~ his own i~dividua t!!1 to realize to the ~ his

abilities and talents. And it Is that kind of world - a world

of lively diverslt~ of self-determination for men and for

nations - that we seek to help bring into being abroad. ___ __.._ - =

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Throughout his public career, Senator Clinton

Anderson has worked to build that kind of world and

that kind of America.

We owe him our gratitude. We owe him our

support.

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SENATOR CLINTON P . ANDERSON

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SENATOR MONTOYA: Thank you very much, Governor

Campbell. Vice President and Mrs. Humphrey, Senator and

Mrs. Anderson, Congressman and Mrs. Tom Morris, Congressman

Walker, Mr. Speaker Bruce King, Governor-to-be Gene Lusk, and

I'm one hundred percent for you, state officials and

candidates, ladies and gentlemen.

I feel highly honored, and it is indeed a great

privilege to try to fulfill this assignment tonight; but I

want to say at the outset that I am proud to be here at this

head table with my distinguished colleagues in the United

States Congress from New Mexico. It is indeed a privilege

to serve with a great senator from this state whom you

honor tonight and who will be elected without any trouble in

November, my friend, and a great public servant, Senator

Clinton P. Anderson.

I am also proud to be serving with our two

distinguished congressmen who are hard workers and real

producers for our great state, and I want to pay tribute to

Congressman Tom Morris and Congressman John Walker here

tonight before the people of New Mexico. It is indeed a

rare privilege to have two distinguished citizens born in

the same state adorn this New Mexico platform here tonight.

Many years ago a conspiracy was born in the State

of South Dakota, and as a result of this conspiracy, two

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states, but also to the United States of America: for Clinton

P. Anderson and our distinguished speaker here tonight were

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State of New Mexico became greatly enriched •

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most difficult time, and the winds, the political winds, I

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Mexico scene tonight and this platform, and because he came to

New Mexico to open our campaign he has become a legend among

the Democrats of this state and we are appreciative for his

great, great contribution at that time.

But I want to say that as he immigrated from the

State of South Dakota, all that he and I have in common is

that he and I were soda jerkers in a drug store, only he got

to be a druggist and I went on to law school. But I would

say that in those years when he became an adult he had twenty-

twenty vision, and today he still has that twenty-twenty

vision, but in his exemplified by the wonderful choice he

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American politics because he had a distinguished career in the

United States Senate. His vision and his person became

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job throughout the world. His vision and his person became

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identified with the Food for Peace Program. He was the

author of these two pieces of legislation. He thought of the

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college student when he was a United States senator, and he

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Education Act which made possible the entry into college of

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into college, and from this Act generated its successor which

made possible for an extension of this privilege to almost

every American boy and girl today on the American scene.

But in the field of agriculture also, this man has

no peer, because he has done a tremendous job and a great

contribution in the field of agriculture. In the field of

foreign affairs he is a goodwill ambassador and a great

interpreter of the winds in international affairs, and a

great advisor to the President , and in the field of domestic

policy he is a champion of the people.

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all the citizens of our great country •

And so I say to you tonight that this American,

with what he has done already, will live in the annuls of

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the great strides that we have realized as a nation. And

I feel greatly proud, and I present to you our great Vice

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President, the Honorable Hubert H. Humphrey.

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my long-time associate and friend, guardian angel most of the

time, Clint Anderson and to Congressman Tom Morris and

Congressman John Walker, to Tom and his Connie, to John and

his Polly and Joe and his Dell~ and to Clinton and his

Henrietta, I just want you to know how much Muriel and I

appreciate the tribute to be in your company here tonight.

Governor Campbell, I want you to believe me when

I say in deepest sincerity that you are one of the truly

talented and gifted governors and chief executives of our

fifty states and you have done great things for New Mexico

and your name will live in the history of this state with

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you for that.

I want you to take our good wishes to Mrs. Campbell,

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Ruth Ann, and to all of your official family. What a

wonderful privilege it is to be in a state where everybody

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that is anything in politics is a Democrat. You just have

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habit that you ought to get accustomed to. You keep it up and

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lieutenant governor, just to start out. I am for them and I

know you are, too.

Oh, there's so many people I should like to salute

here tonight. I have a whole list of them, but we have work

to do and I want to get on with our evening, but I was so

pleased to know that three of your distinguished former

governors are in your audience, Governor Miles, Governor

Burroughs and Governor Simms. It's a wonderful, wonderful

heritage that you have here. The service of these fine men,

and they're here with you, not only with you, they're here to

give you inspiration, and they're here to help you. At least

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a good time with her and I hope that beautiful young lady

sings that beatiful song and that's a lot of beauty all at

once, I might add. Muriel was keeping her eye on me all the

time that girl was singing. As I look out over this audience

and know that you have come to a dinner tonight, I can't help

but be reminded of what our late beloved President John Kennedy

once said when he came to a dinner like this and the price tag

was rather substantial, he said, "You know, I feel touched,

but," he said, "I gather you were touched a little sooner than

I was, but I hope that the touch was soft and pleasant."

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for a good cause and you are here to salute a truly remarkable, u ,._· ... 0 u

0 great American, your own Senator Clinton P. Anderson. Well,

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I'm proud to join tonight with so many who pay tribute to this

wonderful man. We have been seat mates in the United States

Senate and as was indicated here by this grand fellow, Joe a=l

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father over at Wallace, South Dakota, and then a little later

to Huron, South Dakota, and Nowlin, and then on it, I went a

little bit east into Minnesota, but Clinton Anderson headed

a long ways west.

Now we both entered the Senate in the same year in

the elections of 1948. We came in that class of the eighty-

first Congress, but as you heard tonight, Clint Anderson did

not enter as any old greenhorn. He was already a seasoned

political leader. He had been five years in Congress, three

years in President Truman's Cabinet, so he wasn't any young

freshman like Hubert Humphrey, so I had a lot to learn, and I

can say from this platform tonight that I went to Clint

Anderson many, many times and he was kind and good and

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as you know, to help this nation in difficult times, to help

them find answers. And many was the time when I was privileged

to serve as majority whip of the Senate that I went to Senator

Clinton Anderson and said, "Clint, here's the situation, what

do we do?" I didn't admit that while I was majority whip,

but I am willing to admit it now, and he came to me and gave

me good advice and gave the Senate great advice.

But you know, I have a reason I think I understand

why he came out here. Now he was going around Washington

telling people that he came out here because he loved the

climate and the people, but what he really liked best of all,

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immigrant boy from South Dakota. You were lucky.

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and wonderful people and a new culture almost unto i tself.·

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and science and industry and agriculture is phenomenal and

the word has spread indeed, to all parts of the land, and the

high traditions of that Spanish culture which means so much

to our America are symbolized and represented in the purest

form and the best in the presence and the representation of

Senator Joseph Montoya.

That great tradition and culture was also gallantly

and heroically represented for years in the Senate of the

United States by our own and beloved, departed friend Dennis

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congressmen, and Tom Morris, we are indebted to you. You are

a fighter and a worker and you, too, John. And I know that

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and these two men and your two senators make one of the

greatest teams of congressional· representation that any

state has in the Congress of the United States . You don't

have to take a back seat for anybody. In fact, you are

in the front row in the orchestra section.

Now, I want to talk to you a little while about the

great record that your members of Congress and others like

them are making, not for themselves but for you and for a

better America. President Lyndon Johnson has laid out

before the Eighty-ninth Congress, and for part of the

Eighty-eighth Congress, a tremendous program of social

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days he was taken from us, ·his work unfinished. But I say

in all reverence, thank God that we had someone by his side

who was capable of taking over the heavy burdens and the

great responsibilities of the presidency, a friend of New

Mexico, yes, a friend of all the people, and Lyndon B.

Johnson, then Vice President, became President of the United

States in that hour of our pain and our grief. What did he

say to us? He said, "Let us continue", and he pledged that

every bit of the program that John Kennedy had promised the

American people would be completed, that he would carry

through as a partner in the new frontier.

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We're in the seven hundred and thirty-five, forty

billion dollar category today. We have eight million more

people employed today than were employed five years ago. Our

farmers are doing better today than they've done for years and

rightly they should. American labor is better paid in real

money and real wages, taking into account the cost of living

increase.

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"' is up, savings are up, America is on the move.

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worries that we have over the economy that's moving ahead

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because most Americans are hard working people, most Americans

seek to better themselves, most Americans are proud of their

family, their community, their nation, their religion, and

most Americans are willing to give just a little extra of

themselves to make a better America.

And when we speak of the Great Society, we speak of

a better America, a better America for our children, education

and what's our program? To give every child all the education

that he or she can take; that's our program today, and we're

doing it.

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In three years we have doubled the national

investment in education. In three years, we have doubled

the national investment in health. Elementary and secondary

education and higher education, over ten and one-half

billions of dollars of Federal aid to education. And men

on this platform helped to get it.

No matter where your boy or girl goes to school,

public, private, or parochial, there's some help for the

child to make it better to have a better educational opportuniiy

because we know that education is the key to success and the

progress for most of us and we have looked after the health

of our people.

If Clinton Anderson had never done anything else in

his life but to have been able to do what he did do in the

field of Medicare, he would be a national hero. Millions of

our senior citizens tonight owe him a lasting debt of

gratitude.

I know a little bit about this. I was one of the

early sponsors of a bill to put hospital and home care under

Social Security. I went to my dear friend Clinton Anderson

when I was his seat mate and said, "Clint, I'm getting nowhere

with this legislation. What do you think you can do about

it?"

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America of the deprived, the America of the ghetto, the

America of the poverty-stricken, Negro, Puerto Rican , Indian,

Mexican - American and many others.

And President Johnson had the foresight and the

insight and the moral courage to summon this nation to an

all- out war on man's ancient enemy called poverty. And we

are at it. Oh, we haven't won it, but I remind you that

merely to identify it as a social evil and merely to . have

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programs. To do what? To make it possible for our fellow

Americans to be first class citizens, to bring them into

the blessings and the opportunities of American life.

And may I say to critics of these programs - - and

many of these programs fail in part, I know that, many of

them do not do all we wish. Sometimes we do not have all the

means and all the resources that we wish, but I want to say

that to the critics that how little or whatever little we

are able to do or even how poorly we are able to do it, it's

better to do what we are doing than to do nothing.

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of the poverty-stricken rural areas of America and fs made a

truly productive citizen, America is the better and so is

the boy and so is the girl.

And literally hundreds of thousands of young people

have been reclaimed, rehabilitated because America cared,

because you cared and new leadership is growing up in

America. And I wish to say to my fellow Americans that all

the preaching that we do to the world about freedom and

democracy will fall on deaf ears unless we can demonstrate

that we know how to practice it here.

And when we speak of justice, and the profits of

Israel spoke of justice flowing like a mighty river, and

when we speak of justice in America, let's be sure that we

practice it and then we can talk about justice in the rest of

the world and have somebody believe us.

Oh, we're making progress; housing, Medicare, rent

supplements, Job Corps, Head Start, Civil Rights, voting

rights; we have a long way to go, but as that old proverb

"The longest journey is the first step", and we've made those

first steps and we're on the way, and I say to our critics,

"What do you propose? What is your plan?" We know what ours

is and we're going to stick with it. We're not going to

give up in this war on injustice and inequity and inequality

simply because on occasion it doesn't all work out as we want.

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they haven't found it, but you do not abuse the medical

profession because they haven't found a cure, do you? No.

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burden of the ignorant or illiterate nearly as much as it

is a constant shame upon a society that prides itself in

knowledge.

So, we're at the business of doing what you want

done and you know you want it done. Government, private

organizations, churches, schools, labor, business; all of us

working together as a great team to try to find some answers

to old problems and to emancipate people who today are

literally in prisons of disease and ignorance and poverty

and fear.

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on earth." And that last best hope on earth is where you

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of all mankind.

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another part of the world because as I indicated to you, there

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constant want, there is no peace." And the great Roman Seneca

once said that, "Where there is hunger, there is no reason " .

So, in a world of hunger and a world of want, in a

world of poverty and much of this world is that way, the

peace that you want for your children, the peace that we

want for days ahead is threatened. Your Senators and Congress

men have always had a keen understanding of this factual

situation. They've been interested not only in the welfare

of the people at home, which we must and surely should put

first, but also in the welfare of people in other lands.

Latin America, Latin America, I want to say that

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State, in the Foreign Service in the Peace Corps. We've

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Corps of America, the Foreign Aid Program of America, and

we're doing the same in Africa and Asia.

Just two days from now, in fact this Sunday, another

important event is going to take place in another part of the

world. We Americans don't have a monopoly on important events

It's an important step in nation building, and, it's going

to take place in a country thousands of miles away on the map

but very close to families here tonight, as close to us as

the young Americans who are risking and giving their lives

there, and I have been there. I speak of Viet Nam, a painful

war, difficult one to understand, but we're not there just

to help the Viet Namese, even though that will be moral

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sweep over what is known as the Great Food Belt and Food Bowl

of Southeast Asia, that it threatens not only the United States

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matter of our national security and our long range national

interest, and we're there too, because we believe in helping

people help themselves to have self determination. And Sunday

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of this week the people of South Viet Nam are going to take

step number one in freedom. They're going to go to the polls c.::> u O M w N O

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votes to elect a constituant assembly, to write a constitution

and a free constitution, my fellow Americans.

In many ways, that election is as important as the

one we'll have here in a couple of months. Now, some of our

fellow Americans have doubts about it, there's a certain

cynicism. They don't seem to believe that an e~ection can be

held in the midst of a war, but I'm here to tell you that one

can be held and will be held and I think the best answer to

the sceptics is to remind them that only a year ago this last

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?1 every city of South Viet Nam for the election of local

officers, and millions of people cast their votes.

The Communists weren't on the job then. They missed

the bus, so to speak. They didn't take that election seriously

and they didn't make a determined effort to disrupt it, but

they're not about to make that mistake again.

They're determined to smash, as they say, and to

crush this coming election, and I use their own words. They

warned every candidate to withdraw, they warned all the

election officials concerned with the preparations of the

election to cease their activities, they've warned Government

officials, not, as they say, to coerse the voters.

They're busy threatening, killing, kidnapping, using

terror tactics, to deny people the right of self determination.

I want my fellow Americans to know, who are protesting, and

that's their right. My fellow Americans who have a difference

of view and that is their right and we'll defend that right

but I want them to know that on this Sunday, a great national

act of self determination and self respect is taking place in

South Viet Nam, and who is trying to stop it. We? The

Australians? The Koreans? The Philippines? The New

Zealanders? Oh, no. The Government of South Viet Nam? Who

is trying to stop it? The Communists . The Viet Cong, North

Viet Nam, they are holding seminars, these Communists for

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and the Viet Cong must fear that Lincoln was right or they

would not have gone to such lengths to prevent the people of

Viet Nam from casting their ballots on Sunday. This Sunday.

Now, I read your paper tonight and it says 11 Humphrey

predicts big vote." I don't predict big vote, I predict

significant vote. I want you to know that this election is

being held under the threat of death. It's being held in the

midst of war, it's being observed by over four hundred

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correspondents of newspapers.

There are over five hundred candicates for a

hundred offices, not a single office goes uncontested.

There is no censorship, but I do predict that hundreds of

thousands, yes, millions of Viet Namese will vote. How many,

I can't say, what percentage I don't know. All I know is

that in an American election where we literally beg people to

vote, get the car out and haul them to the voting booth, where

we put out literature and spend thousands of dollars to ask

people to vote, entice them to vote, that in an off-year

election we're lucky to get forty-five per cent of the voters

out and even in a Presidential election we get about sixty

per cent.

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killing and threatening and kidnapping and assassinating,

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but I can tell you that there will be many, and every voter

is a hero because every single voter takes his life in his

own hands.

Oh, this is important, and isn't it interesting

to know that the Communists understand the importance of

this election? They have elections of their own there,

those unanimous elections that you have seen, you know, in

the Communist country.

That's not the case in South Viet Nam. We welcome

this election. No Communist Party has ever won a national

election, a free election. We welcome the election that makes

possible constitution making, and we welcome the opportunity

to work with the Government that comes from that

constitution and my fellow Americans, we have some

experience with constitutions, and I'm going to just give

you a moment of it and then we're going to say goodnight.

A little history, I used .to teach history -and I know so many

people are going to tell you about, well, this election in

Viet Nam wasn't very good, and it had a lot of trouble with

the Government, and it's unstable and so on and so on.

There's been a change of Government five times in VietNam in

the last six years. There were eleven changes of Government

in Greece in eighteen months when the Greeks' so-called civil

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we went to the help of Greece and don't forget it, we went 0 u ,.: ... 0

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experience with Governments ourselves. We haven't always

been this rich, this prosperous and as orderly as we are

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The Articles of Confederation, our first

Constitution, adopted in 1777 and were not ratified until

1781, and then in 1787 the delegates from each state were

invited to meet in Philadelphia. A hundred delegates were

invited on May 14, to draft a constitution.

On May 25th, Senator Anderson, they got a quorum,

that's about as hard as getting one down at Washington,

and they had a quorum of twenty-nine out of the fifty-five

that ultimately came.

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history. Your America has a lot t o show the world but we need

to have some tolerance for the rest of the world. We will

continue to wage the struggle in Viet Nam on every front .

diplomatic, political, economic and military , with vigor,

determination, and above all patience, and we will cease, we

will pursue ceaselessly, we will pursue with constant

determination every possibility for a just peace.

Every day we • re rebuked, every day it • s the

no, no, no, and when I hear people say , and I know that they

again have the right to say it , and I mean it, they say Peace

in VietNam, may I tell you that is President Johnson • s daily

prayer. This is your Vice President • s daily prayer . Of

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nations are struggling to find their way in today's world

and it is not the only nation where the Communists have sought

to take over by subversion, propaganda or aggression. In

Asia alone, Malaya, the Phillipine Republic, Korea, Burma,

Indonesia and Thailand have all suffered, or are suffering

right now from Communist insurrections, and as you know,

South Korea and India have been the victims of large scale

attacks by Communist neighbors, and no nation in Asia did more

to accomodate itself to Communist China than India.

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attacked with naked aggression, but in the end I'm confident

the Communists will find that aggression gets them little or

nothing so long as it is resisted, for they are bucking the

strongest tide running in the world today, the tide of nationa

independence and self determination, and just as the roots see~

water, the roots of the tree seek water, so people seek their

own national identities.

I'm here tonight to say to my fellow Americans

that it is not the dogma of Karl Marx, Lenin and Stalin that

are shaping the world of today and tomorrow, they're not

revolutionaries, they are despots, oppressors, pirates. The

dogmas that are shaping the world of tomorrow are the ever

fresh principals of our own Declaration of Independence and

the Rights of Man, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

No nat±on has willingly gone Communist. No nation

has willingly turned itself over to a dictator, and my fellow

Americans, one billion people have gained their freedom in

twenty years in this ,.,rorld. Seventy new nations have come on

the scene of this world in the last twenty years and not one,

I repeat, not one has gone Communist.

I don't think the tide of history is in their favor. In

fact, the tide of history in America and what we stand for, is

freedom and opportunity, what we live for and stand for and what

we have been and are doing here at home is no more than what we are

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domestic tranquility and to seek justice, life, liberty and

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spells his last name is free to express his own individuality.

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seeking to do, to release this Go d given potential, that ' s in

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help bring into being abroad .

Senator Anderson has worked for that great idea.

Senator Montoya has worked f o r this kind of a world . Your

Congressmen, Morris and Walker, have been soldiers in the

front l i ne of freedom .

We all owe them a debt pf gratitude . Generally, in

a message like this, one picks a bit of scripture or verse

as his text. I save mine for the end as a benediction . I've

often asked myself what is it that means, what does America

mean? What is the promise of this land? When I'm abroad, I knpw

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stood because we do things we ought not to do, but America, thi~

great blessed land is a beacon light of hope .

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his vision can combine to make him."

This, yes, this is the promise of America . It

couldn't be said more beautifully . And my fellow Americans,

this is the goal that your President seeks . This is the goal

that your Congress seeks, and I know that this is the promise

that you have in your heart for America . Every man his chance

to be something and above all, to be free.

Thank you very much.

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